Definition of responce

1. response [ n ] a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some foregoing stimulus or agentExamples:"a bad reaction to the medicine""his responses have slowed with age"

Used in print:

(Chicago Daily Tribune...)

This time the orchestra gave him some superb support fired by response to his own high mood .

(High Fidelity, 11:10...)

Some of them are obvious , such as the fact that we associate recorded and live music with our responses and behavior in different types of environments and social settings .

(B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)

This must be_due to a completely identical response to the weather , in the plant and the animal .

(E. Gellhorn, "Prolegomena to a theory of the emotions"...)

Previous experiences are obviously of great importance for the qualitative and quantitative emotional response .

A state of parasympathetic `` tuning '' of the hypothalamus induced experimentally causes not_only an increase in the parasympathetic reactivity this structure to direct and reflexly induced stimuli , but leads also to an autonomic reversal : a stimulus acting sympathetically under control_conditions elicits in this state of tuning a parasympathetic response !

2. response [ n ] a resultExamples:"this situation developed in response to events in Africa"

Used in print:

(William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)

Although the particular form of conceptualization which popular imagination had made in response to the experience of spirit was undoubtedly defective , the raw experience itself which led to such excesses remains with us as vividly as ever .

(Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)

To_be_sure , when this is pointed_out , a common response among certain churchmen is to fulminate about `` the little flock '' and `` the great crowd '' and to take solace from Paul 's castigation of the `` wisdom of the wise '' in the opening chapter of First_Corinthians .

(Organic Gardening and Farming,...)

In response to the lengthening days of February they budded , then bloomed their 4 - inch velvety flowers .

(Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)

In response , the industry allowed the discovery of the motion_picture as a form of fiction and thus gave the movies the essential form they have had to this day .

(J. F. Vedder, "Micrometeorites", in Francis S. J...)

Many workers believe that the response is proportional to the incident momentum of the particles , a relation deduced from laboratory results linearly extrapolated to meteoritic velocities .

3. response [ n ] a statement (either spoken or written) that is made in reply to a question or request or criticism or accusationExamples:"I waited several days for his answer""he wrote replies to several of his critics"

Used in print:

(The Dallas Morning News,...)

But ask coach Darrell_Royal what position he plays and you 'll get the quick response , `` place_kicker '' .

(Christopher Davis, First Family....)

When he was asked a question or addressed in such a way that some response was inescapable , he would answer ; if , as often happened , he had to repeat because he had spoken too softly , he would repeat his words in the same way , without emphasis or impatience , only a_little louder .

(Evan Esar, Humorous English; a guide to comic ,...)

When a question contains two verbs , the response does not make clear which of them is being answered .